Well, the 4th of July is over.  I'm still up to my eye balls with 'things to do'.

Blogging has been hit or miss, mostly I'm lurking leaving a comment occasionally but mostly lurking. 

Meghan graduated from nursing school last Thursday evening.

You can't tell in this picture but she's bawling.  The picture is bad for two reasons:

1. I'm a crappola photographer 

2.  I'm bawling too.

This picture is Meg and 3 of her classmates, they have all been hired in the CV/ICU unit at Mercy hospital.

Then on Saturday we partied. 

  

The 4th of July was quiet.  Just my mom and dad. 

Today was my day off so I finally finished the binding on 

Scrappy Happy.

still not 'thrilled' with this one.  Oh well, it's done.

And I started and finished the binding on OBW #3

60 x 51

I'm also nearly finished quilting Fire Escape. I'm doing 'water ripples' on it and have 1 full pass and then another 5 inches to finish it.  It will be done tonight.
She says hopefully.

And then the binding....can't seem to get away from that lately.


Is it hot where you are?
It's in the high 90's here, humid.  I remember when we moved here.  
No A/C for the first couple years.  


So spoiled now it's embarrassing.

OBW # 3

(50 x 60)

the back, the strip is the original fabric used

close up of my free hand of the panto Raindrops 

My spacing is not perfect  but I think it's an acceptable interpretation.  The size for 1 pass was 6 inches.  I laid a ruler across top and put a long piece of blue painters tape along it to mark the bottom edge. I did the first 2 rows like that but found the bottom raindrops where a little hard to execute so I tightened the row spacing to 5 1/2 and that was better for me.  It doesn't sound like a half an inch would make a difference but it seemed to. Or perhaps I was just getting more comfortable with the pattern. 

Now that I have the movements memorized I think this would be a cool design to just let go with and do smaller and not linear.  

And finally my dear Annie.  

She will be 11 years old on Wednesday.